| Sent Forth to the Place from Where You Came |
Speaker(s): Everett Tilson |
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Description: This is the last sermon preached by Professor Everett Tilson before his retirement. He preached this at the 1988 senior eucharist and baccalaureate. It deals with clergy appointment, call, and election. He calls for new pastors to choose the scriptures they want to preach and to be willing to cross boundaries in their own ministries. He says the seminary used to be mostly male and Methodist, but it has crossed boundaries in the makeup of the student body and the faculty, and yet they still have a long way to go to be more inclusive. The scripture preceding this sermon was Isaiah 10:24-27, and Luke 4:16-30. |
Length: 20:06 |
Recording Date: May 13, 1988 |
Recorded at: Methodist Theological School in Ohio |
| Report on Trip to Jackson, Mississippi, 1964 |
Speaker(s): John Dickhaut, Jeffrey Hopper, Everett Tilson, Van Bogard Dunn, Paul Minus |
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Description: A class hears about a courageous and historic trip four of their faculty members made to Jackson, Mississippi to integrate a White Methodist church on Easter morning, 1964. MTSO Dean Van Bogard Dunn and faculty members Jeffrey Hopper, Paul Minus, and Everett Tilson had been arrested and jailed for attempting to worship along with three other White professors and two young Black men. That trip was part of an effort that led to a national church ban on enforced segregation in Methodist Churches. John Dickhaut speaks first. At 4:25, Jeffery Hopper provides the background of the event. At 11:32, Everett Tilson talks about meetings held in Jackson. At 21:43, Van Bogard Dunn details the events of Sunday morning, March 29, 1964. And at 30:22 Paul Minus speaks about events following the arrest. Read the full story in the the article, "Easter in Jackson, Mississippi, 1964," by Carter Dalton Lyon. A PDF of this article is at: http://SoundTheology.org/ST-PDFs/Easter_Jackson_1964.pdf. |
Length: 36:12 |
Recording Date: 1964 |
Recorded at: Methodist Theological School in Ohio |
